CyberCorps Scholarship for Service (Renewal): Cross Disciplinary Cybersecurity Education for a Modern Workforce

该项目支持继续在马萨诸塞州阿默斯特大学（UMass Amherst）的CyberCorps®服务奖学金（SFS）计划。该计划利用大学的高级课程来实现其教育和培训网络安全研究人员和专业人员的主要目标。它将支持大约31名本科生和研究生水平的学者，主要来自计算机科学和电气与计算机工程。 该计划旨在通过强大的同行指导，教师咨询以及学术和专业支持来培养成功的同龄人。通过教育跨学科的网络安全学者，该计划将有助于培养新一代的专业人员和研究人员，以解决社会和行业面临的新颖和具有挑战性的问题。这些学生将有助于现代化的行政部门的劳动力，推进科学和技术在政府实验室，并确保我们的国防。该计划将通过强大的课程，个性化的专业发展，跨学科的丰富，独特的研究机会和高质量的教学相结合，为学生在网络安全领域的成功职业生涯做好准备。该计划将继续积极招募和保留妇女和代表性不足的少数民族进入马萨诸塞大学阿默斯特分校的本科和研究生课程作为一个主要目标。该计划包括马萨诸塞大学阿默斯特分校外部的教师和工作人员，以创建来自少数民族服务机构的学生管道，包括掩体山社区学院，霍利奥克社区学院和斯普林菲尔德技术社区学院，以及布鲁克代尔社区学院，这是国家科学基金会社区学院网络试点网站。该计划还包括与马萨诸塞州的非营利组织教育服务合作组织（Collaborative for Educational Services）的合作，该组织招募高中生从事STEM职业，特别是那些有色人种或低收入学生。该项目由CyberCorps®服务奖学金（SFS）计划支持，该计划为建立或继续网络安全奖学金计划的提案提供资金，并与美国国家网络战略保持一致，以培养一支上级网络安全人才队伍。毕业后，奖学金获得者需要在联邦，州，地方或部落政府组织的网络安全工作与他们的奖学金支持相同的时间。这个奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估的支持。

This project supports the continuation of the CyberCorps® Scholarship for Service (SFS) program at the University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass Amherst). This program leverages the University's advanced programs to achieve its main objective of educating and training cybersecurity researchers and professionals for service career placement. It will support approximately 31 undergraduate and graduate level scholars, primarily from Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering. The program aims to foster successful cohorts through strong peer-mentoring, faculty advising, and academic and professional support. By educating cybersecurity scholars across disciplines, this program will help create a new generation of professionals and researchers to address novel and challenging problems facing society and industry. These students will help to modernize the Executive-branch workforce, advance science and technology at government laboratories, and secure our national defense. The program will prepare students for successful careers in cybersecurity through a combination of strong curricula, personalized professional development, interdisciplinary enrichment, unique research opportunities, and high-quality teaching. The program will continue to actively recruit and retain women and underrepresented minorities into UMass Amherst’s undergraduate and graduate programs as a primary objective. The program includes faculty and staff external to UMass Amherst to create a pipeline of students from minority-serving institutions, including Bunker Hill Community College, Holyoke Community College, and Springfield Technical Community College, as well as Brookdale Community College, which is a National Science Foundation Community College Cyber Pilot site. The program also includes a partnership with the Collaborative for Educational Services, a Massachusetts-based non-profit that recruits high school students for STEM careers, particularly those who are students of color or are low-income. This project is supported by the CyberCorps® Scholarship for Service (SFS) program, which funds proposals establishing or continuing scholarship programs in cybersecurity and aligns with the U.S. National Cyber Strategy to develop a superior cybersecurity workforce. Following graduation, scholarship recipients are required to work in cybersecurity for a federal, state, local, or tribal Government organization for the same duration as their scholarship support.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.